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Weinergate: Weiner-less Parade, More Self-portraits Coming?

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An image purportedly sent from Congressman Anthony Weiner last month (BigGovernment).

After years of attending, Anthony Weiner was a no-show at yesterday's Celebrate Israel Parade (Daily News headline: "Where's Weiner?"). But missing out on a major event for one of his largest bases may be far from Weiner's biggest bother today. Andrew Breitbart, who has been pushing the Weinergate story hard for the past week, now claims to have a stash of "photographs, chats, and emails" from the Congressman in which he and a "young woman" engage in an "online, consensual relationship involving the mutual exchange of intimate photographs." Which, by the way, is not illegal.

Breitbart is threatening to release the trove slowly throughout the day, and the first drop has already arrived, apparently featuring Weiner verifying his identity to the woman in question. According to BigGovernment, the photo was "allegedly emailed to the young woman in question from AnthonyWeiner@aol.com on Thursday, May 5, 2011, via BlackBerry."

The new bit of evidence that Weiner has been using his much-discussed social media skillz for extracurricular entertainment comes as yet more attention is being paid to who exactly the Congressman was using Twitter to talk to (and how old they are). Meanwhile TweetCongress.org recently did some digging into Weiner's "I was hacked" defense, pointing out that an earlier "his yfrog e-mail account was taken advantage of" theory has some problems, namely that both the infamous tweet and Weiner's earlier tweets that day were all sent via TweetDeck.

But not everything is looking grim for Weiner—no less than Roger Stone thinks "he can still save himself—IF there is no final indisputable adjudication of what actually happened. As long as it is an open question in which his supporters and detractors can each believe what they want, he can most likely be a congressman for life," Stone told the Daily News.

Finally, in case you missed it, this weekend in Weinergate we discovered that Anthony Weiner's laundryman has tight lips, Weiner was a nice boyfriend before he got married and his car registration may be expired.

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  • Guest

    This pictures are up and ummmm...yeah, he's done.

    http://biggovernment.com/abrei...

  • bobalu100

    Weiner will resign soon..........

  • Man, what the hell, Weiner?

  • Guest

    so he is the dog in the picture in the back?

  • SonnyBobiche

    Hah! I love the latest released Weiner Tweet.

    “Me and the pussys”, with a cats in background.  That Weiner, he's such a poet.

  • MermaidFornicator

    i was a fan of the guy before but it looks like he's too stupid to handle a little story like this. weiner is a moron, these types of stories are not new, instead of taking control of it, he's allowed others to define it. he is letting his career get ruined.

  • sixthreeone

    Shame Sarah Palin instead. 

  • TimSPC

    Why is Breitbart threatening to release them? Why not release them? What is the ransom here?

  • sixthreeone

    WHO CARES? Shame someone like Sarah Palin. Can't we dig up some crotch shots of her?

  • SonnyBobiche

    In your wildest fantasies!

    The issue here is not private material but material willfully disseminated to people other than your spouse in reckless disregard for the risk that entails.  But you knew that.

  • MermaidFornicator

    mine too, doesn't she go to the beach? can't TMZ get some bikini shots of her??

  • SonnyBobiche

    In Alaska?  However, her beauty pageant shots back from the 80s are available.

  • MermaidFornicator

    she travels & is on vacation around america, plenty of chances for her to hit the beach. also i prefer her current milfy look.

  • Guest

    "Andrew Breitbart, who has been pushing the Weinergate story hard for the past week,"

    To be fair, so has Gothamist.

  • Guest

    literally.

  • robingee

    Andrew Breitbart, get a life.

  • bobalu100

    Btritbart exposes perverts...

  • robingee

    1) spell the name right and 2) why the ellipse?

  • birdmechanical

    I don't know, most of the stuff he brings up eventually gets discredited: Sherrod, NPR, Planned Parenthood, & Acorn stings.

    So far, nothing he has released has even seemed odd.

  • Jakesterman

    Self portraits of an erect penis don't seem odd to you?  At least admit that it isn't "normal" to take self portraits of your own, or anyone's, penis.

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